manufacturing

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man·u·fac·tur·ing /ˌmænjəˈfæktʃərɪŋ/ W3 noun [uncountableU]

TIFthe process or business of producing goods in factories 制造；制造业 → production

Thousands of jobs had been lost in manufacturing.

制造行业已有数以千计的人失业。

the manufacturing industry

制造业

Examples from the Corpus

manufacturing• He does not like to talk about manufacturing.• Is this the first job ever conducted against leeches in the food manufacturing premises?• Among the most obvious categories here are the unskilled, the young, black people and those made redundant from manufacturing.• Women were important to the economy in general and especially so in manufacturing.• Most people in the area work in manufacturing and services industries with less than one percent working in agriculture.• The restructured firm consists of three operating divisions; defence; facilities management; and I-Linie manufacturing management applications for mainframes.• The post-1977 history of marine manufacturing can be divided into two.• But without manufacturing, mining, and agriculture the world can not - in the present state of science - survive.

From Longman Business Dictionary

manufacturingman·u·fac·tur·ing /ˌmænjəˈfæktʃərɪŋ/ noun [uncountableU]MANUFACTURING

1the process or business of producing goods in factories

IBM is the world leader in software for manufacturing.

The aircraft industry has been one of the few strong spots in US manufacturing.

—manufacturing adjectiveadj [only before a noun]

Manufacturing costs increased at a slower rate than sales growth.

Few companies are likely to set up manufacturing plants here.

2the part of a company that is concerned with making goods, rather than designing or selling them

a former head of manufacturing at Chrysler

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